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New Year Address January 1, Juche 102 (2013) Dear comrades, Officers and men of the heroic People’s Army and all the beloved fellow countrymen, Dear

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, Jan 1, 2013

New Year Address

January 1, Juche 102 (2013)

Dear comrades,

Officers and men of the heroic People’s Army and all the beloved fellow countrymen,

Dear compatriots,

Having
seen out the year 2012 characterized by the events that will go down in
the history of the nation, we are seeing in the new year 2013 full of
high hope and confidence in final victory.

Reflecting the unanimous reverence of all the service personnel and people for President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il,
the fathers of the nation and eternal Sun of Juche, I would like first
to tender the highest tribute and New Year greetings to them.

I
extend my warm greetings to the service personnel and people who are
devotedly striving for the prosperity of the country firmly united
around the Workers’ Party of Korea, and sincerely wish all the families
across the country harmony and greater happiness.

My
New Year greetings also go to our compatriots in the south and abroad
who are ringing in the new year with yearning and expectations for the
reunification and prosperity of the nation and the world’s progressive
peoples and our foreign friends who love justice and peace.

Last
year was a historic year in which the great Generalissimos were upheld
as the eternal leaders of our revolution and a firm guarantee was
provided for brilliantly carrying forward the revolutionary cause of
Juche to completion under the leadership of the Party.

The
President and the General were great leaders whom our people acclaimed
for the first time in their history spanning thousands of years; they
are the eternal images of the great Paektusan nation and banners of all
victories and glory. Last year we celebrated the centenary of the birth
of the President as the greatest national holiday, reviewed the 100-year
history of Juche Korea with pride and held up the General as the
eternal leader of our Party and people realizing the cause of
immortalizing the leader. By doing so, we have been able to glorify the
new century of the Juche era as the annals of victory and glory for the
accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche under the unfurled
banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Although
they saw in 2012 in tears of blood after the sudden demise of the
General whom they had believed in as in heaven, our service personnel
and people determinedly rose up following the Party with firm faith that
the great General would always be with them and fully supported the
leadership of the Party. With loyalty as pure as white gem, noble sense
of moral obligation and all sincerity, they refurbished the Kumsusan
Palace of the Sun in the most sublime way as befits the supreme
sanctuary of Juche and erected the statues of the Generalissimos on
Mansu Hill and in several other places.

Placing
deep trust in and faithfully supporting the Party, they established the
ties of blood with it, their hearts pulsating in the same beats with
it, and always shared sweets and bitters with it. Major political
celebrations held amid the deep interest of the whole nation and the
days of last year bore testimony to the single-hearted unity between the
Party, the army and the people which was further consolidated to be
unbreakable ties of blood.

Last
year our service personnel and people achieved historic victories which
would brilliantly shine in the history of the country by waging a
general offensive to put the intentions and instructions of the General
into practice.

Our reliable scientists and technicians successfully launched the artificial earth satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2,
carrying out the instruction of the General with credit and fully
demonstrating the high level of space science and technology and overall
national power of Juche Korea. That we successfully manufactured and
launched the scientific and technological satellite by entirely relying
on our own efforts, technology and wisdom was an event of national
jubilation that raised the dignity and honour of the Sun’s nation onto
the highest level and a great event which inspired all the service
personnel and people with confidence in sure victory and courage and
clearly showed that Korea does what it is determined to do.

Through
the parade held in celebration of the centenary of the birth of the
President, our revolutionary armed forces demonstrated the inexhaustible
might of the powerful revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu steadfast in
ideology and faith and equipped with Korean-style modern military
hardware capable of defeating any formidable enemy. And they reliably
safeguarded the security of the country by resolutely smashing every war
provocation and anti-DPRK smear campaign of the enemy. The officers and
men of the People’s Army and the People’s Internal Security Forces made
breakthroughs on all major fronts of building a thriving country with
the mettle of “At a go” and did many good things for the happiness of
the people, thereby living up to the expectations and trust of the Party
and people.

Although
the situation was acute and complicated and severe natural calamities
hit the country in succession last year, our army and people made great
strides in their efforts to build a thriving socialist country and
improve the people’s living standards by displaying an indomitable will
and waging an unyielding struggle.

We
put the Huichon Power Station and Tanchon Port into commission, built
many Juche-oriented and modern factories and enterprises and
reconstructed major production bases in key industrial sectors on the
basis of advanced science and technology, thus further consolidating the
material and technological foundations of our economy.

Thanks
to the exalted patriotic zeal of the service personnel and people,
monumental edifices including Changjon Street and Rungna People’s
Pleasure Park sprang up in Pyongyang and many cultural facilities for
the promotion of the wellbeing of the people were built in different
parts of the country, changing its looks.

Last
year, the superior socialist education system was further consolidated
through the adoption of the law on enforcing universal 12-year
compulsory education; our sports people achieved laudable successes in
international games, adding glory to the country; and our revolutionary
artistes conducted artistic activities in a fresh and enterprising
manner, imbuing society with an animating spirit and greatly encouraging
the people in their struggle.

The
brilliant successes we achieved in the revolutionary struggle and
construction work last year were ascribable to the fact that the General
had unfolded an ambitious blueprint and laid firm foundations for the
building of a thriving country. Last year’s significant successes were a
valuable fruit born of the unshakeable determination and correct
leadership of our Party to glorify Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s
Korea all over the world by translating the far-reaching plan and
instructions of the General into reality and the lofty sense of loyalty
and patriotic devotion of our service personnel and people unfailingly
faithful to the Party.

I
extend my warm thanks to all the service personnel and people who
adorned the first year of the new century of the Juche era with great
victories in hearty response to the Party’s militant call.

Comrades,

The
new year 2013 is a year of great creations and changes in which a
radical turnabout will be effected in the building of a thriving
socialist country on the road of the onward march in the new
century of Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s Korea.

All
the people and service personnel should dynamically turn out in the
grand onward march for building a thriving country full of pride of
victors and confidence in a rosy future.

The
road of Juche is the only path for our Party and people to invariably
follow and great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the ever-victorious banner
of our revolution. We should march forward along the road of
independence, the road of Songun and the road of socialism to the end
upholding the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. Our Party will
triumphantly build a thriving socialist nation, the most powerful
country, on this land in our own way, the way the General did, by
relying on our people who are the best in the world.

This
year we will be greeting the 65th anniversary of the founding of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, our glorious motherland, and the
60th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

The
dignified and glorious present of our people and the bright prosperous
future of our country are ensured by the immortal nation-building
exploits the Generalissimos performed while founding a genuine state of
the people for the first time in the 5 000-year-long history of our
nation and developing it into a powerful socialist country that is
independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in national defence and by
the great achievements the President made while leading the Fatherland
Liberation War to brilliant victory on the strength of his outstanding
strategy and tactics and wise leadership.

In
this significant year we should add brilliance to the immortal
achievements of the great Generalissimos and make persevering efforts to
build a thriving socialist country and carry out the cause of
reunifying the country.

The
building of an economic giant is the most important task that comes to
the fore in the present stage of building a thriving socialist country.

We
should further consolidate the successes achieved so far in economic
construction to raise the status of our country to that of an economic
giant in the new century, thus realizing the wish of the great General
who devoted all his life to making our people well off with nothing to
envy in the world.

In
the same manner as we demonstrated the dignity and might of Songun
Korea through the manufacture and launch of the Juche-based application
satellite, the entire Party, the whole country and all the people should
wage an all-out struggle this year to effect a turnaround in building
an economic giant and improving the people’s standard of living.

“Let
us bring about a radical turn in the building of an economic giant with
the same spirit and mettle as were displayed in conquering space!”—this
is the fighting slogan our Party and people should uphold this year.

All
sectors and all units of the national economy should launch a vigorous
general offensive to boost production in hearty response to the Party’s
militant slogan.

All
economic undertakings for this year should be geared to effecting a
radical increase in production and stabilizing and improving the
people’s living standards by solidifying and making effective use of the
already-built foundations of the independent national economy.

By
adopting decisive steps to shore up the vanguard sectors of the
national economy and the sectors of basic industries, we should develop
coal-mining, electric-power and metallurgical industries and rail
transport on a preferential basis and provide a firm springboard for the
building of an economic giant. We should make innovations in
coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to
revitalize the overall economy of the country.

The
success in economic construction should be manifested in the people’s
standard of living. We should direct great efforts to bolstering up the
sectors and units that have a direct bearing on the people’s livelihoods
and increasing production there, so as to give them more benefits in
living.

Agriculture
and light industry remain the major fronts for economic construction
this year, too. We should fulfil this year’s plan for grain production
without fail by concentrating nationwide efforts on farming and raising
the efficiency of agricultural production by dint of scientific and
intensive methods. We should take concrete measures for the supply of
raw and other materials to light-industry factories and thus increase
the output of quality consumer goods.

We
should decisively bolster up livestock, fish and fruit farming to
provide the people with a better, more bountiful diet. The soldiers of
the People’s Army and the shock-brigade members who volunteered to work
at the reclamation site of Sepho tableland in response to the Party’s
call should achieve miraculous successes and perform heroic feats in
this year’s campaign to open a bright prospect for carrying the Party’s
grand nature-remaking plan to completion at an earlier date.

We
should wage a dynamic struggle to boost production at the modern
factories and production bases that were built under the leadership of
the General who, going on with his super-intense forced march, made
painstaking efforts to improve the people’s living standards. By doing
so, we should ensure that his ennobling affection reaches the people as
it is.

All
sectors and all units of the national economy should push ahead with a
socialist emulation drive to reenergize production and fulfil their
quotas as fixed in the national economic plan for this year.

We
should bring about a radical turn in the building of an economic giant
on the strength of science and technology by fanning the flames of the
industrial revolution in the new century.

The
industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific
and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a
shortcut to the building of an economic giant. Like the satellite
scientists who conquered outer space we should wage a dynamic campaign
to push back the frontiers of science and technology so as to develop
the country’s overall science and technology to the world standards as
soon as possible. All sectors of the national economy should direct
primary efforts to the development of science and technology, bring
science and technology into close combination with production in order
to boost production by relying on domestic resources and technology, and
introduce CNC technology in equipment and production lines and achieve
their full automation in the long run.

We should improve economic guidance and management as demanded by the developing reality.

All
sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for
economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every
possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the
immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development
and push ahead with them in a persistent manner. We should hold fast to
the socialist economic system of our own style, steadily improve and
perfect the methods of economic management on the principle of
encouraging the working masses to fulfil their responsibility and role
befitting the masters of production, and generalize on an extensive
scale the good experiences gained at several units.

We should continue to channel great efforts into consolidating our political and military might in every way.

The
single-hearted unity of the army and people around the Party is our
strongest weapon and a powerful propellant for the building of a
thriving socialist country.

We
should invariably carry forward the proud tradition of single-hearted
unity, the tradition of adorning the red flag of the revolution only
with victories on the strength of the harmonious whole wherein the Party
believes in the people and the latter absolutely trust in and follow
the former.

All
officials, Party members and other working people should become genuine
comrades united with a single heart, who share ideology and purpose,
weal and woe with our Party on the road of the Songun revolution, and
make devoted efforts for the sake of their country and people. They
should orient all undertakings towards defending and cementing the
single-hearted unity, and strengthen the political and ideological
position of our revolution as solid as a rock by grasping the people’s
sentiments and rallying broad sections of the people firmly behind the
Party.

The
military might of a country represents its national strength; only when
it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a
thriving country and defend the security and happiness of its people. We
should put continued stress on increasing our military might under the
great banner of Songun, reliably safeguard the security and sovereignty
of the country and render services to assuring regional stability and
global peace.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the advancing of the slogan “a-match-for-a-hundred” by the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung.
It is important to bring about a fundamental change in strengthening
our revolutionary armed forces and perfecting their combat preparedness.

The
People’s Army should set up a revolutionary command system and military
climate, establish steel-strong military discipline and perfect its
regularized features as befits an elite revolutionary force. It should
make its training more intensive, as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did on
Mt. Paektu, so as to prepare all its officers and men to be
a-match-for-a-hundred combatants who have acquired capabilities for
actual warfare, and maintain full combat readiness. If the aggressors
dare launch a preemptive attack against our sacred country, the People’s
Army should mercilessly annihilate them and win victory in the war for
the country’s reunification.

Officers
and men of the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces and members of
the Worker-Peasant Red Guards should intensify combat and political
training and maintain full combat readiness with a determination to
safeguard their Party and leader, country and people, and defend their
hometowns.

The
sector of defence industry should develop in larger numbers
sophisticated military hardware of our own style that can contribute to
implementing the Party’s military strategy, thereby fulfilling its
mission as the arsenal of the powerful revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu.

We
should spur the building of a civilized socialist nation to usher in a
new era of cultural efflorescence in the 21st century.

The
thriving socialist country we are building is a civilized socialist one
where all its people are possessed of profound cultural knowledge,
sturdy physique and noble moral virtues, enjoying a socialist life to
their heart’s content under the most cultured conditions and
environment, and a beautiful and sound lifestyle pervades the whole
society.

All
sectors in cultural construction should implement to the letter the
ideas, lines and policies set forth by the General, and develop
education, public health, literature and the arts, physical culture,
public morals and all other branches as appropriate to an advanced
civilized nation.

We
should develop Pyongyang into a more majestic and picturesque city as
befits the capital of Juche Korea, the centre of Songun culture, and
turn all streets and villages, mountains and rivers in provinces, cities
and counties into a socialist paradise. At the same time we should set
up modern cultural and welfare facilities, parks and pleasure grounds in
larger numbers, thus making our people enjoy a cultured life of a new
era to their heart’s content.

In
order to effect a radical change in this year’s campaign to build a
thriving socialist country, officials should make a fundamental
turnabout in their ideological viewpoint, work style and attitude.

Those
who acquire the President’s and the General’s outlook on the people,
make tireless efforts for their good, rid themselves of the old way of
thinking and attitude and make ceaseless innovations in all work, and
rouse the masses to make breakthroughs for the advance, can be rightly
claimed to be genuine officials required by our Party at present.
Officials should strive with devotion, upholding the slogan “Everything
for the people and everything by relying on them!” They should work to
the best of their abilities with a high sense of responsibility,
eagerness and an enterprising approach to work, so that their loyalty
and performance can be judged by the Party and the people.

Party organizations should further enhance their militant function and role.

As
the political staff of the units concerned, they should firmly
establish policy-oriented principles in implementing the Party’s
policies and conduct political and organizational work with scrupulous
care. By doing so, they should ensure that a great upsurge is brought
about in their respective sectors and units. Party organizations, out of
maternal feeling, should embrace all the people, take warm care of them
and lead them forward to ensure that they share the same destiny with
the Party to the end and fulfil their tasks at their posts in a
responsible manner.

We should conduct Party work in a militant way as it was done in the 1970s, and put a focus of the work on thoroughly applying Kim Jong Il’s patriotism in all activities.

Kim Jong Il’s patriotism is the eternal soul and breath of Kim Il Sung’s
nation, and a driving force for the building of a thriving country.
Party organizations should ensure that all officials, Party members and
other working people cherish Kim Jong Il’s
patriotism deep in their hearts and give full play to their patriotic
enthusiasm and spirit of devoted service in the ongoing sacred struggle
to achieve prosperity of their socialist country.

Working
people’s organizations should conduct effective education among their
members to suit their specific features, thus inspiring them to an
all-out offensive for this year. Youth league organizations should
educate young people to dynamically advance straight forward along the
road indicated by the Party and become youth heroes who glorify the
present era of great upsurge with their creative activities and feats.

The
reunification of the country is the greatest national task that brooks
no further delay and was the lifelong desire and instructions of the
great Generalissimos.

Deeply grieving over the national division, President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il,
the fathers of the nation and lodestars of national reunification,
worked heart and soul throughout their life to hand down a reunified
country to their fellow countrymen, laying firm foundations for the
independent reunification, peace and prosperity of the nation.

We
should staunchly safeguard and add brilliance to the undying exploits
the great Generalissimos performed for the sacred cause of national
reunification, and accomplish the historic cause of the country’s
reunification, a long-cherished desire of our nation, true to the lofty
intention of the peerlessly great persons.

This
year the entire Korean nation should turn out in a nationwide patriotic
struggle for reunification in unity so as to usher in a new phase in
the reunification movement.

An
important issue in putting an end to the division of the country and
achieving its reunification is to remove confrontation between the north
and the south.

The
past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between
fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. Anti-reunification forces of
south Korea should abandon their hostile policy against their fellow
countrymen, but take the road of national reconciliation, unity and
reunification.

Respecting
and thoroughly implementing the north-south joint declarations is a
basic prerequisite to promoting the inter-Korean relations and hastening
the country’s reunification.

All
the Korean compatriots in the north, south and abroad should launch a
dynamic struggle to carry out to the letter the June 15 Joint
Declaration and the October 4 Declaration, great reunification
programmes common to the nation in the new century and milestones for
peace and prosperity.

The reunification issue should be solved by the concerted efforts of our nation in an independent manner.

The
driving force of the reunification movement is the entire Korean
nation, and nothing is impossible if it achieves firm unity. All the
members of the Korean nation in the north, south and abroad should
subordinate and orientate everything to the great national cause of
reunifying the country from the standpoint of giving priority and
attaching importance to the nation and achieving its unity. The entire
nation should vehemently reject any moves for domination, intervention,
aggression and war by outside forces, and never tolerate any acts
hindering the country’s reunification.

Whatever
trials and difficulties lie in the way of national reunification, we
will build a reunified thriving country without fail on this
three-thousand-ri land by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.

In
the present international arena, the moves of the imperialists to
interfere in the internal affairs of other sovereign states and their
acts of military aggression pose a serious threat to peace and security
of mankind. The Asia-Pacific region, the Korean peninsula in particular,
has become the hottest spot in the world in which constant tension
persists.

The
aspiration and desire of mankind to lead an independent life free from
all sorts of domination and subordination is growing stronger, and no
force can check the trend of history towards independence and justice.

The
present international situation demands that our Republic continue to
advance along the road of independence under the unfurled banner of
Songun.

By
holding fast to the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, we
will, in the future, too, strive to develop relations of friendship and
cooperation with the countries that are friendly to our country out of
their respect for its sovereignty, and safeguard regional peace and
stability and make the whole world independent.

A
brighter and broader vista is open for us in the new year, and only
victory and glory are in store for our people on their onward march.

Let
us vigorously strive to achieve the prosperity of our country, our
motherland, firmly rallied behind the Party under the banner of
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Dermot Hudson

A very good New Year address by the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un. There is no mention of opening up or reform or even joint-ventures . In fact dear

Message 2 of 2
, Jan 1, 2013

A very good New Year address by the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

There is no mention of "opening up" or " reform" or even joint-ventures .

In fact dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un declares that
"The
road of Juche is the only path for our Party and people to invariably
follow and great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the ever-victorious banner
of our revolution. We should march forward along the road of
independence, the road of Songun and the road of socialism to the end
upholding the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism."

A clear and decisive rebuff to the revisionists and imperialists.

In my opinion the launch of the Kwangmysong 3-2 has proved that the DPRK can achieve great things by its own strength. Juche Korea does what it wants !

Officers and men of the heroic People’s Army and all the beloved fellow countrymen,

Dear compatriots,

Having
seen out the year 2012 characterized by the events that will go down in
the history of the nation, we are seeing in the new year 2013 full of
high hope and confidence in final victory.

Reflecting the unanimous reverence of all the service personnel and people for President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il,
the fathers of the nation and eternal Sun of Juche, I would like first
to tender the highest tribute and New Year greetings to them.

I
extend my warm greetings to the service personnel and people who are
devotedly striving for the prosperity of the country firmly united
around the Workers’ Party of Korea, and sincerely wish all the families
across the country harmony and greater happiness.

My
New Year greetings also go to our compatriots in the south and abroad
who are ringing in the new year with yearning and expectations for the
reunification and prosperity of the nation and the world’s progressive
peoples and our foreign friends who love justice and peace.

Last
year was a historic year in which the great Generalissimos were upheld
as the eternal leaders of our revolution and a firm guarantee was
provided for brilliantly carrying forward the revolutionary cause of
Juche to completion under the leadership of the Party.

The
President and the General were great leaders whom our people acclaimed
for the first time in their history spanning thousands of years; they
are the eternal images of the great Paektusan nation and banners of all
victories and glory. Last year we celebrated the centenary of the birth
of the President as the greatest national holiday, reviewed the 100-year
history of Juche Korea with pride and held up the General as the
eternal leader of our Party and people realizing the cause of
immortalizing the leader. By doing so, we have been able to glorify the
new century of the Juche era as the annals of victory and glory for the
accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche under the unfurled
banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Although
they saw in 2012 in tears of blood after the sudden demise of the
General whom they had believed in as in heaven, our service personnel
and people determinedly rose up following the Party with firm faith that
the great General would always be with them and fully supported the
leadership of the Party. With loyalty as pure as white gem, noble sense
of moral obligation and all sincerity, they refurbished the Kumsusan
Palace of the Sun in the most sublime way as befits the supreme
sanctuary of Juche and erected the statues of the Generalissimos on
Mansu Hill and in several other places.

Placing
deep trust in and faithfully supporting the Party, they established the
ties of blood with it, their hearts pulsating in the same beats with
it, and always shared sweets and bitters with it. Major political
celebrations held amid the deep interest of the whole nation and the
days of last year bore testimony to the single-hearted unity between the
Party, the army and the people which was further consolidated to be
unbreakable ties of blood.

Last
year our service personnel and people achieved historic victories which
would brilliantly shine in the history of the country by waging a
general offensive to put the intentions and instructions of the General
into practice.

Our reliable scientists and technicians successfully launched the artificial earth satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2,
carrying out the instruction of the General with credit and fully
demonstrating the high level of space science and technology and overall
national power of Juche Korea. That we successfully manufactured and
launched the scientific and technological satellite by entirely relying
on our own efforts, technology and wisdom was an event of national
jubilation that raised the dignity and honour of the Sun’s nation onto
the highest level and a great event which inspired all the service
personnel and people with confidence in sure victory and courage and
clearly showed that Korea does what it is determined to do.

Through
the parade held in celebration of the centenary of the birth of the
President, our revolutionary armed forces demonstrated the inexhaustible
might of the powerful revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu steadfast in
ideology and faith and equipped with Korean-style modern military
hardware capable of defeating any formidable enemy. And they reliably
safeguarded the security of the country by resolutely smashing every war
provocation and anti-DPRK smear campaign of the enemy. The officers and
men of the People’s Army and the People’s Internal Security Forces made
breakthroughs on all major fronts of building a thriving country with
the mettle of “At a go” and did many good things for the happiness of
the people, thereby living up to the expectations and trust of the Party
and people.

Although
the situation was acute and complicated and severe natural calamities
hit the country in succession last year, our army and people made great
strides in their efforts to build a thriving socialist country and
improve the people’s living standards by displaying an indomitable will
and waging an unyielding struggle.

We
put the Huichon Power Station and Tanchon Port into commission, built
many Juche-oriented and modern factories and enterprises and
reconstructed major production bases in key industrial sectors on the
basis of advanced science and technology, thus further consolidating the
material and technological foundations of our economy.

Thanks
to the exalted patriotic zeal of the service personnel and people,
monumental edifices including Changjon Street and Rungna People’s
Pleasure Park sprang up in Pyongyang and many cultural facilities for
the promotion of the wellbeing of the people were built in different
parts of the country, changing its looks.

Last
year, the superior socialist education system was further consolidated
through the adoption of the law on enforcing universal 12-year
compulsory education; our sports people achieved laudable successes in
international games, adding glory to the country; and our revolutionary
artistes conducted artistic activities in a fresh and enterprising
manner, imbuing society with an animating spirit and greatly encouraging
the people in their struggle.

The
brilliant successes we achieved in the revolutionary struggle and
construction work last year were ascribable to the fact that the General
had unfolded an ambitious blueprint and laid firm foundations for the
building of a thriving country. Last year’s significant successes were a
valuable fruit born of the unshakeable determination and correct
leadership of our Party to glorify Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s
Korea all over the world by translating the far-reaching plan and
instructions of the General into reality and the lofty sense of loyalty
and patriotic devotion of our service personnel and people unfailingly
faithful to the Party.

I
extend my warm thanks to all the service personnel and people who
adorned the first year of the new century of the Juche era with great
victories in hearty response to the Party’s militant call.

Comrades,

The
new year 2013 is a year of great creations and changes in which a
radical turnabout will be effected in the building of a thriving
socialist country on the road of the onward march in the new
century of Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s Korea.

All
the people and service personnel should dynamically turn out in the
grand onward march for building a thriving country full of pride of
victors and confidence in a rosy future.

The
road of Juche is the only path for our Party and people to invariably
follow and great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the ever-victorious banner
of our revolution. We should march forward along the road of
independence, the road of Songun and the road of socialism to the end
upholding the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. Our Party will
triumphantly build a thriving socialist nation, the most powerful
country, on this land in our own way, the way the General did, by
relying on our people who are the best in the world.

This
year we will be greeting the 65th anniversary of the founding of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, our glorious motherland, and the
60th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

The
dignified and glorious present of our people and the bright prosperous
future of our country are ensured by the immortal nation-building
exploits the Generalissimos performed while founding a genuine state of
the people for the first time in the 5 000-year-long history of our
nation and developing it into a powerful socialist country that is
independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in national defence and by
the great achievements the President made while leading the Fatherland
Liberation War to brilliant victory on the strength of his outstanding
strategy and tactics and wise leadership.

In
this significant year we should add brilliance to the immortal
achievements of the great Generalissimos and make persevering efforts to
build a thriving socialist country and carry out the cause of
reunifying the country.

The
building of an economic giant is the most important task that comes to
the fore in the present stage of building a thriving socialist country.

We
should further consolidate the successes achieved so far in economic
construction to raise the status of our country to that of an economic
giant in the new century, thus realizing the wish of the great General
who devoted all his life to making our people well off with nothing to
envy in the world.

In
the same manner as we demonstrated the dignity and might of Songun
Korea through the manufacture and launch of the Juche-based application
satellite, the entire Party, the whole country and all the people should
wage an all-out struggle this year to effect a turnaround in building
an economic giant and improving the people’s standard of living.

“Let
us bring about a radical turn in the building of an economic giant with
the same spirit and mettle as were displayed in conquering space!”—this
is the fighting slogan our Party and people should uphold this year.

All
sectors and all units of the national economy should launch a vigorous
general offensive to boost production in hearty response to the Party’s
militant slogan.

All
economic undertakings for this year should be geared to effecting a
radical increase in production and stabilizing and improving the
people’s living standards by solidifying and making effective use of the
already-built foundations of the independent national economy.

By
adopting decisive steps to shore up the vanguard sectors of the
national economy and the sectors of basic industries, we should develop
coal-mining, electric-power and metallurgical industries and rail
transport on a preferential basis and provide a firm springboard for the
building of an economic giant. We should make innovations in
coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to
revitalize the overall economy of the country.

The
success in economic construction should be manifested in the people’s
standard of living. We should direct great efforts to bolstering up the
sectors and units that have a direct bearing on the people’s livelihoods
and increasing production there, so as to give them more benefits in
living.

Agriculture
and light industry remain the major fronts for economic construction
this year, too. We should fulfil this year’s plan for grain production
without fail by concentrating nationwide efforts on farming and raising
the efficiency of agricultural production by dint of scientific and
intensive methods. We should take concrete measures for the supply of
raw and other materials to light-industry factories and thus increase
the output of quality consumer goods.

We
should decisively bolster up livestock, fish and fruit farming to
provide the people with a better, more bountiful diet. The soldiers of
the People’s Army and the shock-brigade members who volunteered to work
at the reclamation site of Sepho tableland in response to the Party’s
call should achieve miraculous successes and perform heroic feats in
this year’s campaign to open a bright prospect for carrying the Party’s
grand nature-remaking plan to completion at an earlier date.

We
should wage a dynamic struggle to boost production at the modern
factories and production bases that were built under the leadership of
the General who, going on with his super-intense forced march, made
painstaking efforts to improve the people’s living standards. By doing
so, we should ensure that his ennobling affection reaches the people as
it is.

All
sectors and all units of the national economy should push ahead with a
socialist emulation drive to reenergize production and fulfil their
quotas as fixed in the national economic plan for this year.

We
should bring about a radical turn in the building of an economic giant
on the strength of science and technology by fanning the flames of the
industrial revolution in the new century.

The
industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific
and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a
shortcut to the building of an economic giant. Like the satellite
scientists who conquered outer space we should wage a dynamic campaign
to push back the frontiers of science and technology so as to develop
the country’s overall science and technology to the world standards as
soon as possible. All sectors of the national economy should direct
primary efforts to the development of science and technology, bring
science and technology into close combination with production in order
to boost production by relying on domestic resources and technology, and
introduce CNC technology in equipment and production lines and achieve
their full automation in the long run.

We should improve economic guidance and management as demanded by the developing reality.

All
sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for
economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every
possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the
immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development
and push ahead with them in a persistent manner. We should hold fast to
the socialist economic system of our own style, steadily improve and
perfect the methods of economic management on the principle of
encouraging the working masses to fulfil their responsibility and role
befitting the masters of production, and generalize on an extensive
scale the good experiences gained at several units.

We should continue to channel great efforts into consolidating our political and military might in every way.

The
single-hearted unity of the army and people around the Party is our
strongest weapon and a powerful propellant for the building of a
thriving socialist country.

We
should invariably carry forward the proud tradition of single-hearted
unity, the tradition of adorning the red flag of the revolution only
with victories on the strength of the harmonious whole wherein the Party
believes in the people and the latter absolutely trust in and follow
the former.

All
officials, Party members and other working people should become genuine
comrades united with a single heart, who share ideology and purpose,
weal and woe with our Party on the road of the Songun revolution, and
make devoted efforts for the sake of their country and people. They
should orient all undertakings towards defending and cementing the
single-hearted unity, and strengthen the political and ideological
position of our revolution as solid as a rock by grasping the people’s
sentiments and rallying broad sections of the people firmly behind the
Party.

The
military might of a country represents its national strength; only when
it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a
thriving country and defend the security and happiness of its people. We
should put continued stress on increasing our military might under the
great banner of Songun, reliably safeguard the security and sovereignty
of the country and render services to assuring regional stability and
global peace.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the advancing of the slogan “a-match-for-a-hundred” by the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung.
It is important to bring about a fundamental change in strengthening
our revolutionary armed forces and perfecting their combat preparedness.

The
People’s Army should set up a revolutionary command system and military
climate, establish steel-strong military discipline and perfect its
regularized features as befits an elite revolutionary force. It should
make its training more intensive, as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did on
Mt. Paektu, so as to prepare all its officers and men to be
a-match-for-a-hundred combatants who have acquired capabilities for
actual warfare, and maintain full combat readiness. If the aggressors
dare launch a preemptive attack against our sacred country, the People’s
Army should mercilessly annihilate them and win victory in the war for
the country’s reunification.

Officers
and men of the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces and members of
the Worker-Peasant Red Guards should intensify combat and political
training and maintain full combat readiness with a determination to
safeguard their Party and leader, country and people, and defend their
hometowns.

The
sector of defence industry should develop in larger numbers
sophisticated military hardware of our own style that can contribute to
implementing the Party’s military strategy, thereby fulfilling its
mission as the arsenal of the powerful revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu.

We
should spur the building of a civilized socialist nation to usher in a
new era of cultural efflorescence in the 21st century.

The
thriving socialist country we are building is a civilized socialist one
where all its people are possessed of profound cultural knowledge,
sturdy physique and noble moral virtues, enjoying a socialist life to
their heart’s content under the most cultured conditions and
environment, and a beautiful and sound lifestyle pervades the whole
society.

All
sectors in cultural construction should implement to the letter the
ideas, lines and policies set forth by the General, and develop
education, public health, literature and the arts, physical culture,
public morals and all other branches as appropriate to an advanced
civilized nation.

We
should develop Pyongyang into a more majestic and picturesque city as
befits the capital of Juche Korea, the centre of Songun culture, and
turn all streets and villages, mountains and rivers in provinces, cities
and counties into a socialist paradise. At the same time we should set
up modern cultural and welfare facilities, parks and pleasure grounds in
larger numbers, thus making our people enjoy a cultured life of a new
era to their heart’s content.

In
order to effect a radical change in this year’s campaign to build a
thriving socialist country, officials should make a fundamental
turnabout in their ideological viewpoint, work style and attitude.

Those
who acquire the President’s and the General’s outlook on the people,
make tireless efforts for their good, rid themselves of the old way of
thinking and attitude and make ceaseless innovations in all work, and
rouse the masses to make breakthroughs for the advance, can be rightly
claimed to be genuine officials required by our Party at present.
Officials should strive with devotion, upholding the slogan “Everything
for the people and everything by relying on them!” They should work to
the best of their abilities with a high sense of responsibility,
eagerness and an enterprising approach to work, so that their loyalty
and performance can be judged by the Party and the people.

Party organizations should further enhance their militant function and role.

As
the political staff of the units concerned, they should firmly
establish policy-oriented principles in implementing the Party’s
policies and conduct political and organizational work with scrupulous
care. By doing so, they should ensure that a great upsurge is brought
about in their respective sectors and units. Party organizations, out of
maternal feeling, should embrace all the people, take warm care of them
and lead them forward to ensure that they share the same destiny with
the Party to the end and fulfil their tasks at their posts in a
responsible manner.

We should conduct Party work in a militant way as it was done in the 1970s, and put a focus of the work on thoroughly applying Kim Jong Il’s patriotism in all activities.

Kim Jong Il’s patriotism is the eternal soul and breath of Kim Il Sung’s
nation, and a driving force for the building of a thriving country.
Party organizations should ensure that all officials, Party members and
other working people cherish Kim Jong Il’s
patriotism deep in their hearts and give full play to their patriotic
enthusiasm and spirit of devoted service in the ongoing sacred struggle
to achieve prosperity of their socialist country.

Working
people’s organizations should conduct effective education among their
members to suit their specific features, thus inspiring them to an
all-out offensive for this year. Youth league organizations should
educate young people to dynamically advance straight forward along the
road indicated by the Party and become youth heroes who glorify the
present era of great upsurge with their creative activities and feats.

The
reunification of the country is the greatest national task that brooks
no further delay and was the lifelong desire and instructions of the
great Generalissimos.

Deeply grieving over the national division, President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il,
the fathers of the nation and lodestars of national reunification,
worked heart and soul throughout their life to hand down a reunified
country to their fellow countrymen, laying firm foundations for the
independent reunification, peace and prosperity of the nation.

We
should staunchly safeguard and add brilliance to the undying exploits
the great Generalissimos performed for the sacred cause of national
reunification, and accomplish the historic cause of the country’s
reunification, a long-cherished desire of our nation, true to the lofty
intention of the peerlessly great persons.

This
year the entire Korean nation should turn out in a nationwide patriotic
struggle for reunification in unity so as to usher in a new phase in
the reunification movement.

An
important issue in putting an end to the division of the country and
achieving its reunification is to remove confrontation between the north
and the south.

The
past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between
fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. Anti-reunification forces of
south Korea should abandon their hostile policy against their fellow
countrymen, but take the road of national reconciliation, unity and
reunification.

Respecting
and thoroughly implementing the north-south joint declarations is a
basic prerequisite to promoting the inter-Korean relations and hastening
the country’s reunification.

All
the Korean compatriots in the north, south and abroad should launch a
dynamic struggle to carry out to the letter the June 15 Joint
Declaration and the October 4 Declaration, great reunification
programmes common to the nation in the new century and milestones for
peace and prosperity.

The reunification issue should be solved by the concerted efforts of our nation in an independent manner.

The
driving force of the reunification movement is the entire Korean
nation, and nothing is impossible if it achieves firm unity. All the
members of the Korean nation in the north, south and abroad should
subordinate and orientate everything to the great national cause of
reunifying the country from the standpoint of giving priority and
attaching importance to the nation and achieving its unity. The entire
nation should vehemently reject any moves for domination, intervention,
aggression and war by outside forces, and never tolerate any acts
hindering the country’s reunification.

Whatever
trials and difficulties lie in the way of national reunification, we
will build a reunified thriving country without fail on this
three-thousand-ri land by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.

In
the present international arena, the moves of the imperialists to
interfere in the internal affairs of other sovereign states and their
acts of military aggression pose a serious threat to peace and security
of mankind. The Asia-Pacific region, the Korean peninsula in particular,
has become the hottest spot in the world in which constant tension
persists.

The
aspiration and desire of mankind to lead an independent life free from
all sorts of domination and subordination is growing stronger, and no
force can check the trend of history towards independence and justice.

The
present international situation demands that our Republic continue to
advance along the road of independence under the unfurled banner of
Songun.

By
holding fast to the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, we
will, in the future, too, strive to develop relations of friendship and
cooperation with the countries that are friendly to our country out of
their respect for its sovereignty, and safeguard regional peace and
stability and make the whole world independent.

A
brighter and broader vista is open for us in the new year, and only
victory and glory are in store for our people on their onward march.

Let
us vigorously strive to achieve the prosperity of our country, our
motherland, firmly rallied behind the Party under the banner of
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

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